Editorial note.
Our current issue consists of archival material and supporting information. First, we are making available a document that has been out of print for some time: Disturbances in Cyprus in October, 1931, with an introduction by Jan Asmussen. We believe this document will be highly valuable for those who...

World Bank Establishes Tribunal for Cypriot Investor Expropriation Case Against Turkey.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The World Bank's investment arbitration center has appointed the three members of the tribunal that will decide the US$10 billion expropriation case brought by Cypriot investment firm Libananco Holdings Company Ltd. against the Republic of Turkey. The tribunal will be chaired by...

Turkey gets the go-ahead ...
With stories of near-punch ups between prime ministers, and engines revving up on the Turkish plane ready for Ankara's delegation to stage a walkout, December's European Union summit talks on Turkey's EU accession were certainly full of sound and fury. Yet for all that, the actual process under which...

Turkey, the European Union and Paradigm shifts.
The wide and deep implications of the European Union's decision to begin membership negotiations with Turkey are further evidence (if such be needed) that there is no end to history. In 1952, West Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy and Luxemburg, envisioning a postwar world of reconciliation and cooperation,...

Airline News - Africa / Middle East.
For more airline news, data and analysis, please go to: http://www.airguideonline.com/order_formsubs.htm Jul 24, 2006 Airlines continue efforts helping Americans evacuate Lebanon. Three planeloads of American evacuees landed early Friday at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, and the airport expected several more. Evacuees from Lebanon have been taking...

Student travelogues.
Byline: Chitra Sanam The desischolar's quest for knowledge has left him pursuing study destinations that offer easy budget options. The Indian student diaspora has crossed another milestone, after having adapted myriad routes that lead to not-so-popular nations in the pursuit for knowledge. Unlike the past,...

Airline Finance News - Europe.
For more airline finance news, data and analysis, please go to: http://www.airguideonline.com/professional.htm Jun 26, 2006 British Air Probed for Alleged Price Fix. British and U.S. authorities are investigating alleged price-fixing in passenger fares and fuel surcharges by British Airways PLC and other airlines, the carrier said Thursday,...

The John W. Holmes lecture: Building Peace.
In Making War and Building Peace, Nicholas Sambanis and I conducted a large-scale comparative study of success and failure in peacebuilding after civil war. (1) The study assumes that every peacebuilding effort, like every civil war, is different. We are interested in the dimensions that describe and determine the...

Airline Finance News - Europe.
For more airline finance news, data and analysis, please go to: http://www.airguideonline.com/professional.htm Jul 17, 2006 Germany's leading carriers, in an effort to strengthen their lobbying position with political and economic institutions, have transformed the old Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Luftfahrtunternehmen into the Bundesverband der Deutschen Fluggesellschaften. The new association...

Hyundai Getz new ideas for small cars here.
MUMBAI: Hyundai Motor, the world's sixth largest auto maker, is likely to start using India as a manufacturing hub to meet the demand for small cars in its home market in South Korea. Hyundai may concentrate on manufacturing its top-end models, which yield better margins, in South...